However, I’ve never actually started a club so this is just what I would do. Several of you on Pitch have indeed started your own clubs and been very successful at it. It would be great if any of you could pitch in and add some more information to that page. Thanks!

Since Thursday I’ve had two interesting experiences with Kubb. I thought this group would like to hear.

1. Sold a guy a giant jenga set for Thanksgiving weekend. In the process I showed him my kubb set, gave him a direction sheet and thought I may never see him again. Got an email the next day asking for two kubb sets. He then told me about his search on line and then painted his backyard….before even having a set. He went to youtube and watched some videos. I didn’t ask specifically which ones he watched, but I think I could find out.

2. Sat morning at 7:25 I started playing Kubb with John (partner at DMK and Spring Grove). We battled it out for over an hour. In the process my dog got off his leash as another dog walked by. The lady was like, “Oh, you guys play kubb too.” I think both of our jaws dropped. We talked to her for a few minutes and found out that her husband and friends put on 3-5 kubb tournaments a year. One on a frozen lake and at least one in Chicago. Trying to get more information from this family, but I believe this is a group that plays by the rules “If you take a king shot and miss and have an extra baton the other team gets a shot to steal the victory by knocking the king down”. I’ve seen a few youtube videos of this. Pretty exciting, but how bad would it be to get all the kubbs down on your oppents half of the pitch with more than 2 batons left…miss the king on the first shot…then hand over the baton and lose the game

I’d bet that if he’s doing his own tournaments with that rule, there’s a bunch of other weird aspects of their rule set. Probably kubb elimination… I have also met Kubb players outside of our community playing by other rules. It’d be great to “assimilate” even one of these groups.

Average is around 5 rounds of play. Can you add a separate charts for opening teams and answering teams to identify any trends between the two (as in, if you open, you better win in 10 turns or your chances of winning drop)

All of the semantic data in the Planet Kubb Wiki can be queried and downloaded. Here is the query form for games with turn counts. That can all be downloaded as CSV or even queries via API and get JSON data back.

Of the 46 tournament games in the wiki, 32 have an advantage line somewhere game play.
The percentage chance that leaving an advantage line results in a loss? 100% 88% (see @chrishodge’s correction below)

Is this in the next turn, or in general?
Is there a way to run a regression, or something, and see how quickly you lose a game based on the number of field kubbs in play when you allow the other team to move up?

This is awesome stuff. A couple quick ideas/questions. Can you have horizontal lines across it so one can see the exact(ish) percentages. Also, I would be very curious on (if it is possible) the percent you lose a match in the turn you let the team move up AND the second turn after you let them move up. Is that possible? That would then tell a person how often you let the team move up AND what the result of that is. I have a feeling that everything is possible for you two guys though. I will also just add one more thing. I think this is for a lot of late in the day games, right? The top teams playing in a tournament. I would be really curious what these results would be like if they were for the “average” game. My thought is that the percentages would go up. Perhaps that is a very easy statement to make, but it would be neat to see how much. Another reason to score more random matches throughout the day. The other cool thing would be to see the results for two-person team tournaments vs. three-person team tournaments. Again, this is really cool. Not sure how long it took you to run the numbers, but whatever it was, thanks for doing it.

@swedenssons – here are the exact percentages:
1:5% (admittedly, this is all me)
2:0%
3:9%
4:10%
5:19%
6:15%
7:23%
8:31%
9:47%
10:100%
Of course – these percentages and all the other overall stats will be much much more accurate with more games. With only 46 games outliers are much more prominent than they should be.

I played Kubb last night. I played under the lights, in the Rain,and the mud.I played by myself, against myself. I hit great shots, I missed easy ones. I had tight groupings ,I had terrible one’s with penalty Kubbs.I was hot at 8 meters and then I went cold. I won, it was good!!

3 games, no king misses. I did go thru a stretch awhile back when I missed a few king shots. Nothing more frustrating then making all the right shots to put yourself in position to win and then missing the King !